19 Trap (1/2)

As she continued to move around, the fighting for the treasure intensified. People ganged up on others for all kinds of items. No one retreated, everyone continued to fight with even more ferocity. Even friends were at each other's necks. Ming Yue had a strange feeling about this and decided to look around. She and Xiao Yin seemed to be unaffected and Ming Yue decided to investigate.

”There must be something around here that is causing this”, she thought.

Ming Yue looked around the first area from afar, she did not want to be sucked into the fighting. The hall itself wasn't very decorative, there were blue banners on the walls as well as stone statues. Then,she noticed something peculiar at the end of the hall. Beyond the fighting was another statue. However compared to the other ones, it was much larger and much more detailed. It was of a man wearing armor, he had a deranged look in his eyes as he wielded a sabre on one hand and his other hand was covered in fire.

”This must have been the Blue Fire Scion. What an expression he has”, she thought.

Ming Yue sent Xiao Yin ahead and moved closer to the statue, avoiding the eyes of anyone who wanted to fight. Fortunately, everyone was too focused on the treasure and none of them noticed her. When she arrived at the statue, she inspected it. The statue was pristine and must have been made by a master sculptor. There was such detail to the expression, it was almost life-like.

Xiao Yin then tweeted at her and flew to one of his arms, pecking at it. She looked at the arm which held the fire, touching it before trying to move it around. When she pulled it down, the arm suddenly moved down like a lever. From there, the noise of gears and mechanisms resounded throughout the hall.

During the commotion, the statues from before started moving. They moved away from the walls and went towards the statue of the Blue Fire Scion. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the moving statues. At this point, the statues had formed a line facing the cultivators, some of people had noticed that something was amiss and decided to escape only to find that the entrance had closed.

As everyone started recovering from their crazed condition, a voice was heard from the statues.

”Welcome to my domain, I see that you have all come here to raid my master's home.”

A clump of blue fire then appeared, it was somewhat small and did not have a form. However, the fact that it could speak showed that it had intelligence. It floated above them, moving around the halls.

”I believe that you have all experienced the Demon's Greed Incense as well. That was just the beginning, unfortunately, none of you can leave now. You will all suffer for intruding and you will fulfill you fate as sacrifice for my master”, said the fire in a unemotional tone.

Everyone suddenly realized something. This was a trap, one that would lead to their death.